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A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving. In the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool was hailed by The New York Times as "...superbly original and maliciously funny. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town."… (altro)
Cuando el padre de Ned vuelve de la guerra tiene claro lo que quiere hacer con su vida: beber, ir de putas y apostar a los caballos. Las relaciones con la madre de Ned son tormentosas y acaban en un tiroteo conyugal sin muertos. Y tras la fugaz aventura de su madre con un sacerdote, Ned se marchará a vivir con su padre en un mundo de bares, salones de billar y amistades viriles.
Dit boek laat mij met een dubbel gevoel achter. Het is geweldig geschreven, maar het is eigenlijk een treurig onderwerp. Ned is de zoon van Same en Jenny. Als Sam terugkomt uit WOII laat hij zijn vrouw en jonge zoon alleen achter en gaat een leven vol gokken en alcohol leiden. Ned wordt opgevoed door zijn ietwat zenuwachtige moeder. Jenny wil het iedereen naar de zin maken, maar dan wel naar háár zin. Als Ned op een bepaald moment door zijn vader van school wordt gehaald, gaat hij mee op een vistochtje samen met een vriend van zijn vader Watje. 2 dagen later wordt hij weer thuis gebracht. Na verloop van tijd woont Ned zelfs 2 jaar bij zijn vader. En dan worden de verschillen tussen beide ouders duidelijk. Jenny is een overbezorgde betuttelende moeder en Sam is een vader die het met het vaderschap niet zo nauw neemt en zijn zoon vaak dagen voor zichzelf laat zorgen. Ook geeft dit boek een beklemmend inzicht in het leven van amerikanen op het platteland. De mannen brengen hun dagen en nachten door in diverse cafés en snackbars, de vrouwen schikken zich in hun lot en brengen slierten kinderen groot. We volgen Ned tot hij zelf vader wordt van een zoon als hij vierendertig is. ( )
So accurate and sustained are Mr. Russo's depictions of lunatic drunk talk and petty pool-hall violence that they become almost surreal, as well as blackly funny.
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Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.
- John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
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My father, unlike so many of the men he served with, knew just what he wanted to do when the war was over.
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A wonderfully funny, perceptive novel The Risk Pool is set in Mohawk, New York, where Ned Hall is doing his best to grow up, even though neither of his estranged parents can properly be called adult. His father, Sam, cultivates bad habits so assiduously that he is stuck at the bottom of his auto insurance risk pool. His mother, Jenny, is slowly going crazy from resentment at a husband who refuses either to stay or to stay away. As Ned veers between allegiances to these grossly inadequate role models, Richard Russo gives us a book that overflows with outsized characters and outlandish predicaments and whose vision of family is at once irreverent and unexpectedly moving. In the traditions of Thornton Wilder and Anne Tyler, The Risk Pool was hailed by The New York Times as "...superbly original and maliciously funny. Russo proves himself a master at evoking the sights, feelings, and smells of a town."
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